Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-07-21

the same position that did the sitting room in
the past, though il is by no means as large.
1t is essentially stair hall, and is incidentally
passage. As it is placed we may enter it
from the parlor, sitting room, dining room or
kitchen. Its position is central. There are
two doors between this stair hall and the
kitchen. The central position Of the stairway
has other advantages than those just stated
1t makes long halls of the second floor entirely
unnecessary. AS we will see by looking at the
floor plan, it gives two good bedrooms in
front.
The dining room comes Immediately in the
rear of the sitting room. There may be
sliding doors connecting these two rooms, or
doors three feet and a half wide, hung on
hinges, make a sufficiently large opening
for the dining room connection There may
be sliding doors between the parlor and sit
ting room and the sitting room and dining
room, as shown on the plan. The kitchen has
the advantage of a certain amount of isola-
ton from the rest of the house for the reason
that there are two doors between it and any
other room. The pantries are arranged with
reference to their most convenient use. In
the kitchen pantry there are places for a re-
frigerator, flour bin, bread board, and cup
board. The dining room pantry is china
closet with glass doors above and close doors
below. The doors connecting the dining
room pantry or passage should be hung ON
double spring hinges so that one may pass
through them from either side by merely
pushing against them. The spring causes
them to close noiselessly and to stay closed.
The kitchen contains stationary tables, sink
and drain board and place for all OF the
usual kitchen furniture.
In the plan of this house it is shown how we
may 60 from the kitchen to the same landing
that is used for the main stairway, and thus
avoid the necessity for a distinctively back
hall and ba * stairway. However, If it is SO
desired, it is easy to place stairway IN the
rear and thus have them entirely Independent.
In that event a room may be placed over the
pantry and be used by the servant. This
part of the house can be cut off from the
front rooms and the bath room on the second
floor by door. But to take the house as it
is we have a combination stairway, there
being two doors separating the kitchen ap-
proach from the common landing in the main
stair hall.
On the second foo. there is a hall about
fourteen feet long, from which we pass to
two bedrooms in front, two in the rear, the
bath room and the store closet.
Of course every room is independent. They
NAV be connected one with the other as
family necessities would suggest. The store
closet is accessible from the hall, as such
closet should be. This makes it available
from any of the rooms. The bath room is
directly over the kitchen. The pipe duct,
which is in the kitchen wall, affords passage
for the pipes and also acts as a ventilator
for the kitchen. Its use as yentilator in
this way serves double purpose. 1t not
only takes the odor laden air from the
kitchen, but it also keeps the pipes warm in
cold weather Where there is an arrange
ment of this kind the pipes will not freeze as
long as there is heat in the kitchen. In fact
the pipe duct will be the last place in tie
house to get cold enough to freeze.
To return to the bedrooms: In each there
is a place for bed, which is not always the
case in bedrooms, dressing case and wash
stand. If there is room for these things, il
the dressing case bears its proper relation to
the sources of light, if it is so placed that the
light from the window or from the gas shines
in the face of the user, if the washstand is
conveniently disposed and there is room at
the side of it for slop jar, then the archi-
tect has done his full duty, provided, how
ever, that there is a large closet off from the
bedroom. The room that is called the family
room should be especially well cared for in
the matter Of closets.
A hundred dollars would lath and plaster
the entire attic of this house and provide
room in the front part which could be used
by the boys or by the servant. There is no